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Montana to axe expanded unemployment benefits funded by feds, create back-to-work cash bonus

Daily Montanan The state Department of Labor and Industry on Tuesday paired its announcement of a new direct payment-based workforce incentive created from federal COVID-19 aid with news that...

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SAY THEIR NAMES: MMIP is an epidemic. Experts say the solution lies in sovereignty

Great Falls Tribune DIANE MEDICINE HORSE, AMY JOHNSON, JODY HOWARD, VALEN HOTOMANIE, HOWARD BURLISON, LEVI YELLOWMULE, ROBERT ALEXANDER, ROBERT STEWART, JAMES LIMBERHAND, FREDA KNOWSHISGUN,...

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May 2021

Montana’s Recovery Depends on Child Care. Relief Funding Can Make it Affordable and Accessible.

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May 2021

KIDS COUNT: Child care critical to modern Montana economy

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August 2021

How will MT spend big pot of federal child-care money?

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September 2021

Guest opinion: Make billionaires pay their fair share

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October 2021

In favor of tax fairness, and the American Families Plan budget

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December 2021

Position Announcement: State-Tribal Policy Fellow

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December 2021

Montana's U.S. senators respond after blow to Build Back Better bill

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December 2021

Tax credit supporting thousands of families expires Wednesday

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December 2021

Build Back Better vote draws Montana childcare supporters

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November 2021

Child Tax Credit would benefit around 90 percent of Montana families

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